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Longpoint Provincial Park Review

July 23rd, 2010 Nate Meyer 5 comments

The first thing I want to say about Longpoint Provincial Park….. is SAND, SAND, SAND. The park is pretty much built ontop of a beach, and all sites are in the sand. If you have a trailer, make sure your truck is 4×4, or backing it into a campsite might be an issue. The other thing is, the beaches there are FANTASTIC!

Any site is within walkable distance to the beach, but I would suggest only booking inside of Turtle Dunes Campgrounds, as the other ones are just OPEN sites on the grass. For the most part, the sites on the inner ring of Turtle Dunes are fairly open, but the sites on the NORTH part, and outside ring of Turtle Dunes are pretty private. The best site in the park is site # 434, as it sites pretty much on the beach. There is a SLIGHT bluff to walk over, but you can see the beach, and even set a tent up on the beach. Pictures below are of site # 434.

From LongPoint Provincial Park

So, after driving through the town of Longpoint, the Park is at the very end of the drive. It’s as far as you can drive out on the Longpoint Jet of land. After the front office, it’s a fair drive past the old park, and to Turtle Dune Campground. There is one main washroom, with showers at the center of the Turtle campground. Again, the sites here are mostly sand, and 50% open, 50% private. There’s lots of room on the beach to spreadout, and you can walk-out in the water a ways before it gets deep.

One thing to be careful of is TICKS!. The campsite area seems fine, but if you go for a walk in the trails at the north end of the park, through the tall grass, you’ll get LOTS of ticks. My little dog had 25-30 ticks on him. On the note of trails, the park doesn’t really have any hiking trails that I saw, or biking trails. It’s also hard to bike around here, cause the roads have some sand on them, and your tires dig in.

I didn’t go around and see what good sites there are at this campground, but my GF noticed one other site that was good. Site # 311, inside Turtle Dunes Campground. It’s not on the beach, but the beach is right over a small sand bluff. The site is fairly private as well.

I think that’s about it.. any questions can be emailed to email [at] natemeyer.ca

More pictures can be found here

From LongPoint Provincial Park

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Our camping trip to Long Point!

July 12th, 2010 Nate Meyer No comments

Just got back from Long Point Provincial Park! Again.. the weather was BEAUTIFUL! There wasn’t a cloud in the sky, ither of the days we were there. We got there Friday afternoon, and stayed till Monday. The spot we chose was the closest spot to the beach. There wasn’t alot of privacy, as there was a bathroom across the road, and a playground, but the tent trailer covered most of that view. The beach was about 20 feet away from our campsite, and we had our own path, and our own spot to sit on the beach. I will do a full review of Long Point, with more pictures and stuff later on.

Most of the days consisted of sitting on the beach, or lounging in the boats, or chatting in the shade up at the campsite (as it was HOT!). We played some bocce ball, some badminton, and even volley ball. The beach goes on for MILES! We went for some nice long walks, and even bike rides. We had sand EVERYWHERE afterwards, but completely worth it. I also really enjoyed setting up the chairs on the edge of our campsite, facing the beach, and reading! Awesome!

Tessa and I went out for a bike ride, and brought Percy. We didn’t even think of the ticks for some reason. We went into a long grass trail, and I looked down and noticed my legs had about 3-4 ticks on them. I immediately left, and inspected Percy. He had close to 25 ticks on his body, and took us 2 hours to pull out. I hope we got them all!

We also had the blow-up boats with us, and really enjoyed lounging on them on the lake. I could sit out there for hours! Here are some pics